A minor earthquake magnitude 2.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Poth in Texas. Unique identifier: us6000rher. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rher. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 16/10/25 / 2025-10-16 00:07:22 / October 16, 2025 @ 12:07 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.802 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude -98.1997 West, latitude 29.0013 North, depth = 9.802 km. The temblor was picked up at 00:07:22 / 12:07 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Leon Valley, Seguin, Selma (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop). The epicenter was 55 km (34 miles) from San Antonio (c. 1 327 400 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Schertz (c. 31 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Seguin (c. 25 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Universal City (c. 18 500 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Converse (c. 18 200 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been 0, in the last 10 days 0, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 13 km WSW of Poth, Texas.

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